A student returned home from a date at 3 AM. Her parents were very upset, "You're late! You said you'd be home by 11:45!"
"Actually," the girl replied, "I'm right on time. I said I'd be home by 1/4 of 12."
[Origin: unknown; several variations of this joke appear on various web; a version of this joke, submitted by Zhang Wenyi, was published in Reader's Digest, July 2009, "Laugh!:)", p. 27]
This blog is dedicated to promoting math knowledge and understanding. We present situations, anecdotes, jokes, photos, videos and anything else that will make you smile, laugh, think and enjoy things mathematical. Someone famous in mathematical circles (who we shall not name) said that you, an ordinary non-mathematician person, cannot enjoy math the way a non-musician can and does enjoy music. We are here to prove him wrong.
Recommended Web Sites
Titles I Like
Listed below are some of my favorite math books, articles and other publications.
Math and Engineering
- How Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet [Princeton Press, 2008]
Favorite Clips
Danica McKellar = math + acting (See post 10/27/07)
by Eli Maor
- ⇒ The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
- ⇒ e: The Story of a Number
- ⇒ Trigonometric Delights
- ⇒ To Infinity and Beyond
- ⇒ Venus in Transit
My Other Places Online
About Me
- Uri
- Collecting logical paradoxes especially self-referential ones were always my hobby.
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